“Right now, I’m feeling good but we’ve got another hurdle to go,” reflects biker turned lobbyist Vince Consiglio, who's been on this mission since 1975.

Of course, the additional hurdle is Gov. Rick Snyder who will not disclose what he will do once this repeal is plopped on his desk.

However, an insider privy to the governor’s thinking indicates, “He has indirectly told me he will sign it.”

It’s a good bet in that all the GOP legislative leaders and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley favor the repeal.

So what happened to the age-old argument that it’s unsafe and just plain crazy to ride around without a brain-bucket?

GOP State Sen. Roger Kahn gave it the ol' college try as he failed to convince 24 of his colleges this was a mistake.

“You take them away and the accidents increase, the deaths increase, the costs increase," he said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "And to what end? To have your hair blow in the wind?”

Consiglio deflects the Saginaw senator’s observations, saying he is getting them “out of thin air…We can go head to head on all those stats that he had.”

Of course, protecting your head on a motorcycle was what the old law was all about, but apparently in other states, the repeal has worked. Others counter the death rate has skyrocketed. We're about to find out who is right.

Oh, by the way, just because Mr. Snyder is expected to sign it, don’t look for him to be riding around with his gray hair blowing in the wind.

The Mrs. has told him to forget it. And he always listens to what he describes as a "higher authority."